| Record Number |
768069 |
| ISBN |
9781925589009 (paperback) |
| Author |
Dessaix, Robert, 1944- author. |
| Title |
Arabesques : a tale of double lives / Robert Dessaix. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Surry Hills, New South Wales] : Brio by Xoum Publishing, 2017. |
| ©2008 |
| Pagination etc. |
272 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents note |
"First published by Pan Macmillan Australia in 2008"--Title page verso. |
| Summary Note |
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the 20th-century French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement he felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, Dessaix sets off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to this enigmatic figure. On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, he takes us to the places where the Nobel Prize winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion. |
| Subject - Name |
Dessaix, Robert, -- 1944-Travel -- Mediterranean Sea |
| Dessaix, Robert, -- 1944-Anecdotes |
| Subject |
Travelers -- Mediterranean Sea -- Anecdotes |
| Travel in literature |
| Mediterranean Sea -- Description and travel |
| Mediterranean Sea -- Biography |
| Shelf Location |
910.91638 DESS |
